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__**//Helpful Science Writing Websites//**__

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tgeorges/write/
 * __• A Course in Analytical Writing for Science and Technology__**

Get Help finding a science project idea, And **Teacher Resources** http://www.sciencebuddies.org/
 * __• Science Buddies – Doing a Science Project__**
 * "How-to" information****,**
 * How to Do a Science Fair Project****,**

The standard everyday lab report consists of the following sections. Note that all lab reports may not have every section, but it is a good idea to include all of these sections (even if you write no such-and-such required). http://www.draco.scsu.edu/writing.html
 * __• Procedure For Writing A Lab Report__**

__**• Research, Reports and Presentation Links **__ This is a wonderful resource for science teachers. This site includes many links that will help any science student to write a successful research project. http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/res.html

__**• The KITES Writing Prompts**__ The KITES Project has developed a writing resource for each of our 20 kits. For each kit, there are
 * two full writing prompts developed around the major themes of the national standards in writing:
 * report writing
 * narrative accounts
 * procedural writing
 * response to literature
 * A set of “quick-writes” for each lesson – these are 5-minute warm-ups students can do at the beginning of class
 * A full word-wall, with all the scientific vocabulary used in the kit http://www.ebecri.org/custom/homepagewritingprompts.html

__**PLAINFIELD HIGH SCHOOL Writing Across the Curriculum Resource Center** __The following collection of writing prompts have been gathered and constructed by teachers at Plainfield High School. This list is intended to serve as a guide for educators, students, and parents who are interested in seeing the types of questions teachers of all content areas are using to encourage writing in their classrooms. http://teachers.plainfield.k12.in.us/wac/writingprompts.htm#science

__**Writing Prompts for 10th grade Biology**__


 * •** __In this project the student will choose an analogy (a comparison) and make a poster showing how a cell is like a ..(school, factory, city, house, spaceship, planet, computer, movie, algebra equation, anything!). To show how the cell is like the analogy you choose you must relate all of the organelles to part of that thing. So for instance, if you choose your analogy to be "the cell is like a souped-up 79 Dodge Charger", you might then say that Luke Duke is the nucleus, the engine is the mitochondria, etc. (perhaps Boss Hogg is a virus?)__

For this project you are encouraged to be creative and choose an analogy that fits your personality. Between all of the students doing the project, we will have a TON of great ways to remember the parts of a cell. [|http://www.mrsullivanbiology.org/CP%20Files/cell%20analogy.htm]

• __This will help students to learn the characteristics of viruses and compare the characteristics of living things to non-living things. They will take what they have learned about the characteristics of sponges (Poriferia) and compare it to what they are learning about viruses then they will make observations about a candle flame.__

Explain which of the following, a sponge, a virus or a flame, is most alive using the characteristics of living things and defend your reasoning.

• __This writing prompt will help the students learn the scientific process as well as important scientific history about the discovery of DNA.__

Based on the movie and discussion about “The Race for the Double Helix”, write about how each scientist views the process of science. (J. Watson, F. Crick, M. Wilkens, R. Franklin).

• __This will help students to learn the different animal families and their adaptations in a fun a creative way.__

Create a new animal that is a combination of four completely different animal families and explain your animal’s characteristics, habitat, and adaptations that your animal has to help it survive and reproduce in its new environment.

• __This writing activity will help the student become familiar with the science classroom and help them learn to pay close attention to details. Later in the semester the classroom will be changed in subtle ways and the students will again be asked to make detailed observations about the physical features of the classroom.__

Make as many detailed observations (within 30 minutes) about the physical features of this classroom.

__**Writing Prompts for 9th grade Science Survey**__

• __This writing prompt will help the student become familiar with various the pH scale, various common acids and bases, benefits and hazards associated with these chemicals.__

Identify 10 different acids and bases that can be found in your home and write about their uses, benefits and possible health hazards of each.

• __This writing prompt will help the students understand the physics behind projectile motion, force, acceleration and gravity.__

Explain the movement of a ball from two different vantage points. First, from the view point of a boy on a moving train who throws the ball straight up in the air and then catches it. Then from the second viewpoint of a man standing still outside watching the train go by.

• __A Dark and Stormy Night__

Research an aspect of weather that interests you and write an essay showing the causes and effects of this phenomenon. (Writing to Learn – classroom handout).

• __This writing prompt will help students become aware of Newton’s Laws that are present in their everyday lives as well as how understanding these laws can actually save them.__

Use three examples of Newton’s Laws to explain the importance of wearing your seat belt.

• __The students will learn how important it is to write detailed instructions for science reports. The papers will be exchanged and other students will have to follow the instructions word for word. It ends up being a very funny sandwich making session because most students leave out the critical detail of opening the bread bag and the peanut butter. __ Write an instructional manual explaining how you make a peanut butter sandwich. Please include step-by-step details.

__**Writing Prompt 6-28-07**__ A memorable teacher Mrs. Dulumba was my 7th grade science teacher at Earhart Middle School in Detroit, Michigan. It was my first year living in Detroit after having been forced to move from my childhood home in the suburbs. I had no friends and hated the school and the dirty grunge filled city. Mrs. Dulumba was stout, stern and always wore a white lab coat. She had short curly brown hair and large glasses. She was often boisterous and very entertaining with a funny dry sense of humor. Mrs. Dulumba was the only teacher that really paid much attention to me. She wanted to know more about me. I loved being in her controlled chaotic classroom. She made science fun as if it were a big game. She really helped me in so many different ways. The best thing that she did was to get me excited about my abilities in science. She helped me with my science project about computers. My project didn’t win the schools science fair, which was disappointing but she didn’t let me give up. Mrs. Dulumba said that the schools science fair is more of a popularity contest and that she knew that my project had so much potential. With her encouragement I entered my project in the Detroit Metropolitan Science Fair where it won first place in its category. The student that won the schools science fair didn’t even place. Mrs. Dulumba said that you can’t always take things as they seem, that if I had given up and not tried to enter my project I would have never have known my true potential.

__**Misc. Poetry Success __What makes successful people thrive? What gives them the urge and drive? Why can't I just recieve a portion of thier joie de vive? Instead of falling over my two left feet, left feeling down and beat in disgust and total defeat.

__**Haikus 6-26-06**__ __Yellow weed __Waving in the breeze Tall grand yellow dandelions Guarding green blades

__Confused bug__ A sweat bee I see Chased angrily after me I'm not a flower

__Insect paradise__ Brown and brittle bark on the old mangled tree trunk is home to many

__????????? __Lonely white bind weed trapped in an oasis amongst the dry sand

We're told every day, slow down, stop and play. Smell the roses. Don't let life pass you by, all in the blink of an eye.
 * A Bug on a Rose**

But when I slow down, to smell the roses growing from the ground, there always seems to be a bug or a stupid bee, staring angrily back at me.

Bugs beady eyed and as if to say, "This flowers' not yours to smell today!" So I left it undisturbed. I didn't want to smell a bug, the whole thing was absurd.

This is what it's like for me. Fate has a dislike for me, and irony has a way for invading my life every day.

It would be almost funny, if it didn't always happen to me. I need a break. Fate and Irony should pick on someone else for heavens sake. Secret Keepers** Telling all your secrets, hoping they'll be kept. Airing your frustrations, holding silent conversations In back rooms, behind closed doors, those secrets you keep telling.

Can you trust all those who know? Will they keep them quiet? Quietly below their breath, or will they dish your dirt they have, make all your secrets known?

Some secret keepers can't be trusted. They live to dish the dirt. You should have kept your mouth shut, now you're sure to feel the hurt.

Telling secrets is a leap of faith, you pray they will be safe. Entrusting words of secrecy, to those you know as friends. In the end you sometimes find their lies, they were gossips in disguise.

Some secret keepers can't be trusted. They live to dish your dirt. You should have kept your mouth shut, now all you feel is hurt.

You've been betrayed, quiet is what you should have stayed. I know the pain you feel, I know it all too real.

I close my eyes and in my mind. I see all my desires are complete. Real as they can be, right in front of me. Only when my eyes are closed
 * Tears in Reality**

When my eyes are open wide. All my desires are out of sight. So hard that I can't see only tears in my reality.

So much jealousy, heartache, and pain wanting so much but never getting enough always just out of reach desires that won't let me be

If I close my eyes tight everything is clear to me. All my desires are here for me. Right in front of me in the dark of my mind only when my reality is blind